Table 1.
Stem statement and items for PD-6* Scale and K6** Scale
PD-6 Scale: | K6 Scale: |
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"How much trouble have you had with each of these things in the past month?" | "During the past 30 days, how often did you feel ..." |
1) feeling blue or down in the dumps or depressed | 1) so sad that nothing could cheer you up? |
2) feeling nervous, fidgety, tense | 2) nervous? |
3) being so restless I can't sit still | 3) restless or fidgety? |
4) feeling hopeless about the future | 4) hopeless? |
5) having trouble getting myself going | 5) that everything was an effort? |
6) feeling worthless | 6) worthless? |
*3-point response scale (0 = not at all, 1 = a little trouble, 2 = a lot of trouble)
** Kessler et al. (2002), K6, 5-point response scale (ranging from 0 = none of the time to 4 = all of the time)